NASCAR suspends 6 crew members after Las Vegas
CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR suspended six crew members after the NASCAR race weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch and Chase Briscoe will each be without two key crew members for the next two NASCAR Cup Series races.
Busch will lose jackman Joseph Moser and rear tire changer Shiloh Windsor while Briscoe will lose jackman Caleb Dirks and rear tire changer Daniel Smith for the March 23 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway and the March 30 race at Martinsville Speedway.
Nathan McBride and Adam Riley will fill in for Dirks and Smith, respectively. Meanwhile, Garrett Crall and Christopher Jackson will fill in for Moser and Windsor, respectively.
On lap 33 of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Chase Briscoe lost his left-rear wheel after a green-flag pit stop. 81 laps later, on lap 114, Kyle Busch lost a right-rear wheel on the backstretch and spun.
Each driver lost two laps, in addition to the loss of crew members. While Briscoe came back to finish on the lead lap in 17th, Busch had extensive repairs after his incident and finished 33rd, 35 laps down.
NASCAR also suspended tire carrier Corbin Sklener and rear tire changer Josiah Wright for violating the sanctioning body’s substance abuse policy.
Wright last worked on Brad Keselowski’s No. 6 RFK Racing team in the Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway. Sklener worked on Clay Greenfield’s No. 95 GK Racing team in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com